The Wright-Waldron Fire and Ambulance Service will receive mutual aid assistance from Hudson’s EMS program starting this summer, the Hudson City Council decided at its meeting Tuesday.

The council voted 6-0 to approve the mutual aid and emergency medical service agreement with the Hillsdale County department. Hudson EMS director Jim Stevens said the agreement will begin July 1 and include a set fee of $12,000 per year.

Stevens said Hudson already provides backup mutual assistance to Wright-Waldron with “very little reimbursement.” Stevens estimates Hudson would provide advanced life support services to 75 to 85 of the department’s calls each year.

Payments would be made starting July 1 to the city of Hudson in the amount of $3,000 and then every three months thereafter.

Wright-Waldron Fire Chief Bill Hall said the idea has been a topic of discussion for “about a year.”

In other business

The Hudson City Council at its meeting Tuesday also:

— Appointed Carl Sword to the city planning commission with a term to expire in July 2016.

— Discussed for the second time in three months the idea of the city having

a Christmas tree along West Main Street near the veterans memorial.

— Authorized Department of Public Works Superintendent Phil Goodlock to seek bids to purchase a trail maintenance vehicle. The cost of two pickups purchased earlier in the year for the DPW came in $16,000 less than budgeted.

Goodlock said the cost of such a vehicle is approximately $16,000. The enclosed ATV-type machine would enable DPW personnel to maintain, sweep and plow the three miles of trails in the city.